Docker Contracts in Scotland

Docker
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 81 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.94% 3.65% 5.28%
As % of the System Software category 34.78% 26.30% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 62 96
10th Percentile £360 £400 £425
25th Percentile £413 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £461 £479
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -3.71% -8.76%
75th Percentile £525 £508 £574
90th Percentile £563 £634 £719
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 308 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.32% 13.89% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 190 326
10th Percentile £221 £192 £194
25th Percentile £410 £324 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £538
90th Percentile £589 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile - £60.00 £29.66
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +10 42 £438 -0.57% 30
Edinburgh -6 14 £455 -5.21% 22
Lanarkshire +5 6 £525 +14.13% 2
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.38%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) nginx
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
2 13 (20.31%) Serverless
3 12 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (17.19%) Azure
4 11 (17.19%) OpenShift
5 9 (14.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (14.06%) GitHub
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (10.94%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (7.81%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (6.25%) GCP
10 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.13%) Apigee
11 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.56%) Google Compute Engine
12 1 (1.56%) Stackdriver
12 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Network Security
1 4 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) KDB
1 15 (23.44%) Kdb+
2 11 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.94%) DynamoDB
4 6 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.38%) Parquet
5 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.13%) MySQL
7 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.56%) DB2
8 1 (1.56%) GIS
8 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.56%) Redis
8 1 (1.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) GitLab
3 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Gradle
5 1 (1.56%) Maven
5 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 35 (54.69%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.25%) Banking
3 16 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 12 (18.75%) Finance
5 11 (17.19%) Public Sector
6 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.81%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (56.25%) Developer
2 22 (34.38%) Python Developer
3 18 (28.13%) Senior
4 16 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (21.88%) C++ Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Linux Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Senior C++ Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (12.50%) Data Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Python Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Administrator
11 3 (4.69%) AWS Developer
11 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Lead
11 3 (4.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) AWS CDK
2 7 (10.94%) JSON
3 6 (9.38%) REST
4 4 (6.25%) RESTful
4 4 (6.25%) Spring
5 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
5 3 (4.69%) LDAP
5 3 (4.69%) PostGIS
5 3 (4.69%) pytest
5 3 (4.69%) React
5 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.69%) X-Windows
6 2 (3.13%) CSS3
6 2 (3.13%) HTML
6 2 (3.13%) HTML5
6 2 (3.13%) Loki
6 2 (3.13%) Node.js
6 2 (3.13%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.13%) Pandas
6 2 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.81%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.56%) NVMe
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (59.38%) Linux
2 35 (54.69%) Windows
3 8 (12.50%) Unix
4 6 (9.38%) Mac OS
5 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.13%) AIX
6 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.56%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) CI/CD
1 31 (48.44%) Containerisation
2 27 (42.19%) DevOps
3 26 (40.63%) SDLC
4 19 (29.69%) Data Science
4 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (25.00%) Agile
7 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.94%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (10.94%) Data Extraction
8 7 (10.94%) Data Transformation
8 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven
8 7 (10.94%) Kanban
8 7 (10.94%) Scrum
9 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
9 6 (9.38%) Data Integration
9 6 (9.38%) Migration
9 6 (9.38%) Task Automation
9 6 (9.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (84.38%) Python
2 21 (32.81%) SQL
3 15 (23.44%) C++
4 7 (10.94%) Java
5 6 (9.38%) Perl
5 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.38%) R
6 5 (7.81%) Bash
6 5 (7.81%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.13%) C#
8 2 (3.13%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Bicep
9 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) GPFS
4 1 (1.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 44 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.19%) Terraform
3 9 (14.06%) Ansible
4 6 (9.38%) Grafana
5 3 (4.69%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.13%) Podman
6 2 (3.13%) Puppet
6 2 (3.13%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.56%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.56%) linkerd
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.56%) SCCM
7 1 (1.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Splunk
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Google
4 3 (4.69%) Netskope
4 3 (4.69%) Proofpoint
4 3 (4.69%) Symantec
4 3 (4.69%) Veritas
4 3 (4.69%) VMware
5 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.56%) Brocade
6 1 (1.56%) EMC
6 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.56%) NetApp
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.56%) Sybase